On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Most developers these days still don't seem to have any clue what it
> means to have a truly backwards compatible "Application _Binary_
> Interface", though I don't blame them much because it's a rather
> difficult and complex problem, and one that is not really facilitated by
> most high-level language development tools commonly used by application
> developers, including, especially, libtool.

Actually, libtool's *documentation* has a pretty good explanation of how to
use its versioning option.  It's certainly not complete, but it is a good
start at keeping ABI compatibility in the mind of the software author.

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